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  2. Mountain goat - Wikipedia

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    The mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus), also known as the Rocky Mountain goat, is a cloven-footed mammal that is endemic to the remote and rugged mountainous areas of western North America. A subalpine to truly alpine species, it is a sure-footed climber commonly seen on sheer rock faces, near-vertical cliffs and icy passages.

  3. Oreamnos - Wikipedia

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    Oreamnos is a genus of North American caprines. The mountain goat ( Oreamnos americanus ) is the only living species. [ 2 ] Until the end of the Pleistocene , another species, Oreamnos harringtoni , was distributed to the south of the recent form.

  4. List of mammals of Wyoming - Wikipedia

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    The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is one of the largest species of deer in the world and one of the largest mammals in North America and eastern Asia. In the deer family ( Cervidae ), only the moose , Alces alces (called an "elk" in Europe), is larger, and Cervus unicolor (the sambar deer) can rival the C. canadensis elk in size.

  5. Harrington's mountain goat - Wikipedia

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    Harrington's mountain goat (Oreamnos harringtoni) was a species of caprine that resided in the Southwest of North America during the Pleistocene epoch. A relative of the modern mountain goat, which is the only existing species in the genus Oreamnos, O. harringtoni became extinct around 11,000 B.C.

  6. List of mammals of North America - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of North American mammals.It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants.

  7. Caprinae - Wikipedia

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    Skeleton of a Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia) on display at the Museum of OsteologyAlthough most goat-antelopes are gregarious and have fairly stocky builds, they diverge in many other ways – the muskox (Ovibos moschatus) is adapted to the extreme cold of the tundra; the mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) of North America is specialised for very rugged terrain; the urial (Ovis orientalis ...

  8. List of mammals of Oregon - Wikipedia

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    Oreamnos americanus Bovidae Historically native to the northern Oregon Cascades and the Wallowa and Blue mountains until extinction in the state in the 19th or 20th century; reintroduced to the Wallowa and Elkhorn mountains starting in the 20th century, [ 33 ] and recently introduced to Mount Jefferson in 2010 and 2012.

  9. O. americanus - Wikipedia

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    Americanus (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same abbreviated species scientific name .